Related Clues:

• Rattled one's saber at
• Endangered
• Posed a threat
• Being threatened
• Under attack, perhaps
• In possible danger
• In peril
• Waved a knife at, maybe
• Vulnerable
• Emulated movie monsters
• Dangerously placed
• Tied to the train tracks, e.g
• Growled at, say
• Likely to fail, as a student
• Staked